Why did the Clinton Administration SPY on Lynne Stewart?

http://www.nationalreview.com/mccarthy/mccarthy200502230740.asp ^

[Klinx]

I think that he Left wants to set Lynne Stewart free!

......all of the conversations and actions that resulted in Stewart's conviction took place about two years or more before the post-9/11 regulation (which the, er, Judge, in any event, mischaracterizes).
That is: before George W. Bush was president,
before John Ashcroft was attorney general, and before
9/11 ever happened.
This investigation was very ably conducted by, and took place under the auspices of incontestably proper regulations imposed by, the Clinton Justice Department.

As the indictment explains, and as those of us who actually followed the trial well know, Attorney General Janet Reno began curtailing the Blind Sheik's prison privileges in April 1997 — i.e., a year-and-a-half after his conviction. She did this by placing what were known as "special administrative measures" (SAMs) on his confinement. The SAMs sharply limited Abdel Rahman's ability to communicate with the outside world, which in his case was crucial to national security because of his unique ability to command the commission of terrorist attacks.

At the end of 1997, however, the Sheik's Egyptian terror organization brutally murdered 58 tourists in Luxor as part of a campaign to compel his release by extortion. Subsequently, the Reno Justice Department — again, entirely consistent with federal law — beefed up the SAMs, now prescribing that the Sheik would "not be permitted to talk with, meet with, correspond with, or otherwise communicate with any member, or representative, of the news media, in person, by telephone, by furnishing a recorded message, through the mails, through his attorney(s), or otherwise."

In addition, Abdel Rahman's attorneys, including Stewart, were required in 1999 to sign an affirmation that they would abide by the SAMs. There was nothing novel about this given that, in May 1998, Attorney General Reno had required these lawyers to agree not to "use [their] meetings, correspondence, or phone calls with Abdel Rahman to pass messages between third parties (including, but not limited to, the media) and Abdel Rahman." There was also nothing controversial about it because Abdel Rahman's case had long been over — he was no longer presumed innocent or meeting with lawyers to prepare his defense.

In May 2000, moreover, Stewart willingly signed an affirmation for the Reno Justice Department in which she agreed "to abide by [the] terms" of the SAMs then in effect on Abdel Rahman. As the indictment spells out, "In particular, STEWART agreed that she would 'only be accompanied by translators for the purpose of communicating with inmate Abdel Rahman concerning legal matters' and that she would not 'use [her] meetings, correspondence, or phone calls with Abdel Rahman to pass messages between third parties (including, but not limited to, the media) and Abdel Rahman.'"

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